Ostentatiously exempting themselves from its rules

Camille Paglia:  A credible voice someone should be listening to. 

"As for the actual content of the House healthcare bill, horrors! Where to begin? That there are serious deficiencies and injustices in the U.S. healthcare system has been obvious for decades. To bring the poor and vulnerable into the fold has been a high ideal and an urgent goal for most Democrats. But this rigid, intrusive and grotesquely expensive bill is a nightmare. Holy Hygeia, why can't my fellow Democrats see that the creation of another huge, inefficient federal bureaucracy would slow and disrupt the delivery of basic healthcare and subject us all to a labyrinthine mass of incompetent, unaccountable petty dictators? Massively expanding the number of healthcare consumers without making due provision for the production of more healthcare providers means that we're hurtling toward a staggering logjam of de facto rationing. Steel yourself for the deafening screams from the careerist professional class of limousine liberals when they get stranded for hours in the jammed, jostling anterooms of doctors' offices. They'll probably try to hire Caribbean nannies as ringers to do the waiting for them."

"Finally, no healthcare bill is worth the paper it's printed on when the authors ostentatiously exempt themselves from its rules. The solipsistic members of Congress want us peons to be ground up in the communal machine, while they themselves gambol on in the flowering meadow of their own lavish federal health plan. Hypocrites!"

Comments

[Ron]

Well stated. There is little in the bill to promote the use of 21st technology to provide for better health care delivery.
The plan passed by the House is modeled after 1940's policy.

[Pam]

So much in the bill that that aren't talking about. Such that you can 'keep your health coverage through your employer'-yet they don't tell you if you leave your employer after 2013-you will not be able to join the plan on your new employer/ you will have to take the federal plan. (That is how it is being interpreted by everyone that has read it! But given what they will tax employers for keeping good health plans-the government will be overrun with 'plan participant's and the service will get even worse. Medicare/Medicaid doesn't pay now-& people would be surprised at the number of doctors that DO NOT taken Medicare/Medicaid. This is a huge disaster in the making

[Rand]

It's a time honored tradition for Congress to exclude itself from the laws it passes. For instance, most wage and hour laws do not apply to Congressional staffers. Minimum wage, overtime, exempt status, etc.

[Kahok]

The word "honor" seems out of place when discussing Congress.They really know how to take care of themselves.Some of their benefits including pensions are obscene.